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UK: Protest outside Indian High Commission after crackdown on Amnesty India

Amnesty International activists will protest at the Indian High Commission tomorrow (Friday 30 November) to call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop trying to crush human rights organisations in...

Vietnam: Activist accused of insulting national flag in 'ludicrous' charge

A charge of “insulting the national flag” against prominent Vietnamese human rights activist Huynh Thuc Vy amounts to an attack on freedom of expression by the authorities and must be dropped, Amnesty...

Philippines: First conviction of police officers in 'war on drugs' shows its deadly reality

Responding to the guilty verdict handed to three policemen for the murder of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos in the Philippines, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and...

DRC: UN must investigate disturbing ‘cover-up’ claims over murder of experts

Responding to reports that the United Nations “covered up” information implicating senior Congolese military and security officers in the killing of UN investigators Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp in...

Europe: Stranded refugees must be immediately allowed to dock

Two children amongst 12 people stranded at sea Twelve refugees and migrants who have been stranded in the Central Mediterranean on a Spanish fishing boat for almost a week must be allowed to disembark...

UK: Outpouring of support for Syrian refugee a 'reminder of how people can answer violence with compassion'

Responding to the violent attack against a 15-year-old Syrian refugee at a school in Huddersfield last month and an outpouring of public support for him, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK's...

Israel: 'Rogue' cyber company must have licence revoked over surveillance spyware

Amnesty International is taking legal advice in order to revoke the export licence of Israel-based NSO Group, after it was revealed the cyber firm’s spyware had been used in an attempt to spy on an...

Migrants at US/Mexico border face squalid conditions and unlawful detention - new report

Interviews with 200 people travelling as part of the migrant caravans Unofficial asylum waitlist contains name of around 4,320 people “If Mexico agrees to do the US government’s dirty work, it is...

Google staff at St Pancras headquarters 'don't want to be part of the great firewall of China'

Google’s plans to launch a censored search app in China fly in the face of the company’s professed values and don’t have the support of many Google employees, Amnesty International said today, as the...

UK: Government quietly issues statement on UK involvement in torture

‘Once again, we call on the Government to establish an independent, judge-led inquiry’ - Rachel Logan Responding to a quietly-released written statement last week from Theresa May in response to the...